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Limerick Challenge and Raffle
There once was a gal who was moving
So her thinking it wasn't quite grooving.
So some help she did seek, till she writes more next week.
She hopes she finds none disapproving.
We are moving tomorrow, so my brain is packed away in a box somewhere. Because of this, I thought I'd have a little fun challenge for your brains, in case they might feeling sluggish in the heat or something.
As you can undoubtedly tell, I like to write limericks. I especially like to use this form, which is traditionally humorous, for exploring more serious issues in a short and funny format. What I would like to do today is have a Limerick Challenge and Raffle, with you writing the limericks and me providing a kind of incentive for your labor. I make handmade journals (these are some of the simpler ones) and I am planning to design an Intellectuelle Journal in a few weeks, after we get settled into our new house. I am going to have a raffle and include the name of everyone who submits a limerick in the comments section here, and give away Intellectuelle Journals to five lucky limericists. Please have as your limerick theme something of a more serious or thoughtful nature, but don't be afraid to make the verse funny.
Make sure you include an email address with your comment so if you win a journal, I can contact you. I will be offline for a week until our DSL gets set up in the new house, so please give me lots of great limericks to read when I return to Cyberspace.
Samantha, if you are still around, can you please explain the rules for writing a limerick or just a basic how-to? I am poetically challenged. I only recently (re)learned the format for haiku.
hey ladies,
no offense - but what happened this week?
t-shirts and limericks?
i feel like i showed up for a frappuccino and got kool-aide instead. . .
karen
Um, Karen, we're five stay-at-home moms (three homeschooling), one working mom, and one college student, so we don't always have time to make frappucinos. I started this blog to give us an outlet for our intellectual energy--not to put more pressure on us to perform. So drink your kool-aide and just chill ;)
Also, my post (two down) entitled "The Ls have Left the Building" explains the other reasons why we're serving Blog Lite right now.
Sorry for the order mix up, Karen. :)
Thanks for commenting, no offense taken. Personally, my brain has been on just add sugar & stir mode as opposed to barista mode. Thanks for the inspiration to kick it up a notch.
Lexie,
thanks - no offense was meant. . .
i found your blog through evangelicaloutpost and was delighted (girl word) to find a blog by women for women that was willing to tackle more than diapers and koolaide. i was a stay at home mom for years and worked hard to keep my brain challenged, so i understand "momhood" - but i was looking for something different and thought i found it with intellectuelle.
karen
Karen,
Don't give up on us yet! :)
I know what you mean about looking for something to challenge your brain. One of the reasons I wanted to be a part of this blog was to give myself a break from typical mom and homeschool topics. Now I'm working on making writing and posting part of my routine. (What little routine I have!)
Keep checking back. I'm sure you'll find a variety of beverages. :)
Samantha,
I'll have some car time today to work on a limerick so as not to disappoint our poet annoint. (Annoint instead of laureate...I know it's a stretch, but what do you expect when in less than an hour I'll be en route to a shower.)
Samantha, I've never been good at writing limericks, so I think I'll have to pass. Periodically, I do enjoy writing sonnets, but they take some time for me to write.
Karen, Thanks for stopping by. Did you find Sarah's posts on bioethics to be too light? Or was my last post on marijuana just too boring? I hope not. I am struggling to find a balance between intellectual and accessible. There are many things I could post which are heavy enough but I'm afraid that no one would understand them.
There once was an Intellectuelle
Who everyone thought was quite swell
She got a new home
And left us to roam
And wonder of the things she will tell...
...When she gets her speedy DSL
She'll email me a new journ-elle
Because I like to win
My competiveness a sin
I hope it won't land me in ...Hades.
That was hilarious, Amy...I don't even want to try to top that ! :-D
Hey, Ladies! 'Love your blog. Reading and posting here has been interesting, informative and fun. But I'm afraid I'm going to have to bow out for now. But I love Samantha's limerick's and didn't want her to be disappointed by not getting many entries for her contest.
This will be my last post for a while:
There once was a gal, loved a-bloggin'.
She posted 'til it hurt her poor noggin.
Tho' she tried to cut back,
Self control she did lack
So now she must simply not 'Log In'.
Bye, for now! :-)
There once was a Darwin devotee
Whose philogentics were hokey
"I know my origin"
He said with a sly grin
"I have a great uncle named monkey!"
A man who was openly gay
Claimed that God must have made him that way
He became a young priest
Knew God not in the least
What will God say to him on the Day?
With riches as your only goal
You never can fill up your bowl
For have you ne'er heard
Wealth flies like a bird.
What you lose in return is your soul.
seeker, I'm impressed :)
Debra, I totally understand, but we will miss you--I've really enjoyed your comments. Hope you'll come back when you can.
Thanks - just wanted to be clear that those are three separate limericks, not one big poem.
There was an old teacher from Kansas
Who doubted we came from chimpanzas
He smote evolution
Taught God as solution
Now the ACLU wants the man's ass.
